Refrigerator malfunction brings firefighters to Mercy Medical Center

Firefighters responded to a call from Mercy Medical Center Monday morning finding a malfunction in a refrigerator was giving off the smell of an electrical fire.

Firefighters were called to Mercy Medical Center at 8:05 a.m. Monday when employees smelled smoke in the operating room area.

Battalion Chief Gary Boone said the compressor went bad on one of the refrigerators used to store medication near the operating room. There was no smoke, but the malfunction gave off the odor of an electrical fire, he said.